Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Jackson, Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman), 1881-1958
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of the papers of Professor Leroy F. Jackson (1881-1958), an educator actively involved in the education of Native Americans in the early 20th century. The material focus on the the following subjects: early missions and missionaries to Native Americans in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin; Indian schools in Alaska and New Mexico; the Navajo; the Hopi; the public school and university in America and American education; progressive education; probation and the juvenile court.
- Extent:
- 1,457 items in 13 boxes
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains the papers of Professor Leroy F. Jackson (1881-1958), an educator actively involved in the education of Native Americans in the early 20th century. The material focus on the the following subjects: early missions and missionaries to Native Americans in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin; Indian schools in Alaska and New Mexico; the Navajo; the Hopi; the public school and university in America and American education; progressive education; probation and the juvenile court.
The papers consist of the following series:
1. General Manuscripts (Box 1), are arranged alphabetically by author and title. Most of these items are written by Leroy Jackson; however, there are a few items by other people including Ben Bergunder, David Greene, William Hobart Hare, and Isabella Riggs Williams. This material includes essays, notes, research material, speeches, articles, poems, and short stories. The manuscripts deal with the following subjects: early missions and missionaries in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin; the Navajo and Hopi tribes; American history; and America's role in World War I. This material also includes some biographical material on Leroy Jackson, including completed job applications.
2. Correspondence (Boxes 2-4), is arranged alphabetically by author and addressee. There are 529 pieces of correspondence, of which 133 are written by Leroy Jackson. Other authors included in the correspondence are: Walter Greenwood Beach, John Collier, John Johnson Enmegahbowh, Joseph Alexander Gilfillan, Mabel Dodge Luhan, W. Carson Ryan, Alfred L. Riggs, Thomas Lawrence Riggs, Frederick Jackson Turner, and several other missionaries, historians and professors of history from various universities in the United States. The majority of the correspondence deals with early missions and missionaries in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. A few of the letters talk about the Indian Schools where Jackson taught, as well as the Navajo and Hopi Indians. The correspondence also deals with Jackson's campaign to keep the Carolina New College open, and his search for a teaching position after the school closed (as well as several other times in his life when he found himself unemployed); many of the pieces are letters of recommendation written by Jackson's friends and colleagues.
3. Education Items (Boxes 5-9), are made up of manuscripts and ephemera related to Jackson's education and teaching career; it also includes items regarding American education and the roles of schools and universities in the United States. The manuscripts, mostly written by Jackson, are arranged alphabetically by author and title. These include essays, notes, research material, and papers written by Jackson while he was in college. Also included are reports, school assignments, and letters written by Jackson's students. The ephemera, arranged by topic, includes photographs, newspaper clippings, articles, and publications. Most of the ephemera was collected by Jackson while he was living in New Mexico. The ephemera also includes several items from the Indian Schools including artwork by the students, yearbooks and newspapers. There are also photographs of the students and campuses of the Carolina New College, Wrangell Institute and the Charles H. Burke School. The ephemera also includes brochures and publications from several American universities, as well as some experimental progressive education schools. Both the manuscripts and ephemera deal with the following subjects: progressive education and the American university; the development of school curriculums; the Carolina New College; the Wrangell Institute and several Alaskan Indian tribes; the Charles H. Burke School and the Navajo and Hopi Indians; the Taos Day School and the Pueblo Indians; world history; and probation and the juvenile court.
4. General Ephemera (Boxes 10-12), is arranged by topic, and include photographs, documents, articles, magazine illustrations, newspaper clippings, and maps. The general ephemera deals with the following subjects: Jackson's service during World War I; American southwest archaeology; Southwest Native Americans, including their ceremonial dances, and arts and crafts; New Mexico tourism; World War I; and World War II. Jackson collected the material regarding World War II to write several published articles concerning America's role in the war. The box of index cards contains Jackson's research material for his thesis regarding early Native American missions.
5. Oversize Items (Box 13), are arranged alphabetically by author and title. This material includes six essays and one piece of correspondence. These items were removed from the General Manuscripts series and the Education Manuscripts series and deal with education and American history.
- Biographical / historical:
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Professor Leroy Freeman Jackson (1881-1958), born July 15, 1881, in London, Ontario, Canada, moved with his family to North Dakota in the early 1890s. Jackson received his bachelors degree in 1902 from the University of North Dakota. In 1905 he married Emilie Caroline Baehr; they had two children, Robert Charles and Ruth Allene. In 1909 Jackson received his masters degree from the University of Chicago and in 1912 he went to Harvard for a year to conduct research under Frederick Jackson Turner. After several years of holding teaching positions throughout North Dakota and Minnesota, Jackson began teaching at the State College of Washington in Pullman, where he ultimately became acting Head of the Social Science Division. His teaching career was put on hold during World War I, when in 1917, Jackson went overseas to serve as first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He later served with the Army Educational Corps as the conductor of the Citizenship Institutes. In 1921 he moved to Burnsville, North Carolina, to become director of the Stanley McCormick School (which later became the Carolina New College), an experimental progressive education school funded by Nettie Fowler McCormick. When the school closed down in 1928, Jackson became Dean of the College of the City of Asheville in North Carolina.
Jackson went to work for the United States Indian Service in 1932 and would spend the next four years working with Native American students. The Indian Service first sent him to Alaska to be the director of the newly established Wrangell Institute, which included students from the Tlingit and Yakama tribes. In 1934, Jackson was sent to Fort Wingate, New Mexico to work with the Navajo as director of the Charles H. Burke School. In 1935 he was transferred to the Taos Day School. In 1936 Jackson retired from teaching and moved to Olympia, Washington where he worked for the State Department of Social Security. Jackson was the author of several published articles, monographs, and children's books of nursery rhymes, including The Peter Patter Book (1918) and Jolly Jinks Song Book (1922). He died in Pomona, California, in 1958.
- Acquisition information:
- The collection was given to the Huntington Library by Ruth W. Jackson in three separate gifts in 1986, 1994, and 1998.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged in the following series:
- General Manuscripts
- Correspondence
- Education Manuscripts
- General Ephemera
- Index Cards
- Oversize Items
All items are arranged alphabetically by author, then title or addressee, except the ephemera, which is arranged according to subject.
Indexed terms
- Indexes:
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Indexing: Added Entries
Blaine, Anita McCormick - Addressee of Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, letter (1931, Mar. 28). Box 3 (6) Bureau of Indian Affairs - Addressee of Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, letter [between 1932 and 1934]. Box 3 (10) Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 - Addressee of David Greene, 1797?-1886, letter [between 1831 and 1836]. Box 2 (83) Collier, John, 1884-1968 - Addressee of seven Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, letters (1934-1935). Box 3 (16) Addressee of William H. Zeh, Thomas Dodge, and F. M. Parker letter (1934, June 21). Box 4 (108) Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 - Addressee of Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, letter (1932, Feb. 21). Box 3 (26) Pond, Samuel W. (Samuel William) - Addressee of fourteen Thomas S. (Thomas Smith) Williamson letters (1839-1849). Box 4 (100) Riggs, Thomas Lawrence, 1847-1940 - Addressee of Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, letter ([19]12, July 5). Box 3 (61) Ryan, W. Carson (Will Carson), b. 1885 - Addressee of John Collier, 1884-1968, letter (1934, Jan. 31). Box 2 (49) Addressee of Emilie Baehr Jackson letter (1932, Aug. 15). Box 3 (1) Addressee of six Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, letters (1932-1941). Box 3 (62) Addressee of Roy Nash letter (1933, Oct. 21). Included with Roy Nash letter to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958 (1933, Oct. 21). Box 3 (54) Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932 - Note on Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, Some Phases of German-American Influence in the Formation of the Republican Party (1913, June 9). Box 6 (22) Indexing: Subjects
The following subjects were not subject indexed due to the number of items in which they occur: Carolina New College, early Native American Missions, the Dakota Indians, the Ojibwa, the Hopi, the Navajo, the Wrangell Institute, the Charles H. Burke School, and the Taos Day School.
James Lloyd Breck, 1818-1876 - J. A. (Joseph Alexander) Gilfillan, 1838-1913, letters (1908) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 2 (75) H. F. Parshall letter ([19]08, Mar. 13) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 4 (45) George Copway, 1818-1863? - R. M. Moore letter (1908, Jan. 8) to Charles N. Akers. Box 4 (29) John Johnson Enmegahbowh, 1812-1902 - Charles N. Akers letter (1908, July 24) to H. B. Burrell. Box 2 (3) Charles N. Akers letters (1907-1910) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 2 (2) Francis L. Palmer letter (1912, July 12) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 4 (44) Nettie Fowler McCormick, 1835-1923 - Robert C. Jackson letter [c.1975] to ----- Herd. Box 3 (81) John S. Le Fevre letters (1935-1944) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 4 (5) Oahe Industrial School (Hughes County, S.D.) - Thomas Lawrence Riggs, 1847-1940 letter (1912, Aug. 8) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 4 (57) John H. Pitezel, 1814-1906 - Mrs. C. E. Painter letters (1911) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 4 (43) Stephen Return Riggs, 1812-1883 - John Poage Williamson, 1835-1917, letters (1907) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 4 (99) Thomas S. (Thomas Smith) Williamson, 1800-1879, letters (1893-1849) to Samuel W. (Samuel William) Pond. Box 4 (100) Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958, The American Board Among the Sioux: essay [c.1912]. Box 1 (8) Samuel Spates - Charles N. Akers letters (1907-1910) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 2 (4) Charles N. Akers letter (1908, Feb. 17) to O. G. Libby. Box 2 (5) White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) - J. A. (Joseph Alexander) Gilfillan, 1838-1913, letters (1908) to Leroy F. (Leroy Freeman) Jackson, 1881-1958. Box 2 (75)
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- Restrictions:
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- Location of this collection:
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